I am probably one of those techno-enthusiasts you describe, and hear your message often, I even share your concern stated here very well, thanks for posting.
To me we are seeing a classic Systems Engineering issue, of the Stakeholders of the new System not really knowing exactly what they need.
My usual assignment as a Systems Enginering consultant, along with usually a number of others, is to try to sort out this kind of problem.
We are not always successful.
For this particular assignment, It is voluntary, I seem to have been mostly alone, there appears no obvious path to remuneration, and failure is unthinkable. I do it only because the more I’ve done on it, the clearer the solution has become, and the consequences of not doing it.
We have to learn from the way trees work, they survive from only the power of the sun, supplying not only everything they need to grow and maintain themselves, but also everything needed by all other life.
To do that, we need to change the nature of money, from something that promises more extraction, thus more harm, to something representing the energy of sunlight.
Money as debt has to become money as sunlight.
That means money has to become freely issued, like sunlight, instead of withheld, like the capital energy of Earth, all put there in the first place for free by the sun.
We are getting there, the inflation we are seeing are the first signs of it.
The only way that can be responded to, is by issuing more money, until eventually it has to go free, and recognised that the new money standard will be Joules of energy arriving by sunlight, rather than the Joules of energy locked up in oil, or which created gold.
Work done is coming to be replaced by work in progress, which is far more valuable.
I’ve written about all of this in my own 200+ stories in Medium, as well as thousands of replies like this one.
To me the biggest barrier is the drive for profit, which keeps us locked into the business of energy extraction, rather than the business of energy receiving, which to the old world seems like "Begging", when actually it is about giving.
My stories can be found by anyone interested by searching for "Bitcoin Kardashev Hinge".